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glooms

American  
[gloomz] / glumz /

plural noun

  1. Usually the glooms the blues; melancholy.


Etymology

Origin of glooms

First recorded in 1735–45; see origin at gloom, -s 3

Example Sentences

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Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.

From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2016

Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2011

Actor Lancaster, as the local parson, glooms away Shaw's most romantic scenes as if he were lost on a Bront� moor.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's."

From Time Magazine Archive

Day was coming again in the world outside, and far beyond the glooms of Mordor the Sun was climbing over the eastern rim of Middle-earth; but here all was still dark as night.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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